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Tuesday, 27 August 2013

More and more words

Just a short post on how our language development is going. E. is 15,5 months old and about a few weeks ago I stopped counting how many English and Hungarian words she knows.
Now here are some random interesting features of her language knowledge:

she says what she really wants in both languages (more-még, drink-inni, bread-kenyér etc.)

her functional language is outstanding - she says thank you, Mommy - when she gives something back to me or when I give her something, here you are (not clearly though - it sounds like: heeyaa), please - when she asks for something, don't like it - if she doesn't want to eat something

sometimes she sounds like saying a sentence that she doesn't do in Hungarian (it's incomprehensible, though)

E. likes certain books in English, though I "read" most books in both languages

Still, her favourite is Fran Manushkin: How Mamma Brought the Spring

But she also takes pleasure in Great Day for Up! by Dr. Seuss and Goodnight, Spot by Eric Hill nowadays.

Hungarian:

she is trying to say long words (more than 4 syllables) - palacsinta

prefers the countries in this language (her favoutite one to say is Svájc, and her favourite flag is the Belgian - because of the black in it -, though she cannot pronounce it clearly)

when she sees the Turkish flag she starts to chant: pont, pont vesszőcske, készen van a fejecske, kicsi nyaka, nagy a hasa, készen van a TÖRÖK basa - her utterence is 50% right, but the intonation is perfect

prefers rhymes in Hungarian (Boci, boci tarka, A török és a tehenek)

she says tetszik if she likes something or someone (doesn't say it in English)

Some cute details:

her favourite animal is the penguin at the moment

out of nowhere she calls out her native nanny's name

her favourite colour is black, though when I ask her she says pink or purple

her favourite body part is her belly button (when she has a look at her own, she makes us show ours)

her favourite flower is carnation

she claps after pooping

she loves drawing (onto the parquet, at the playground, on sheets of paper, on the door - but not on the wall yet)

she pronounces Peppa Pig as if she were a little native British girl :)

About Me

Hello there,
just a short intro about me. I was born in 1978, in Budapest, Hungary, and graduated as an English teacher in 2001. I spent a school year in Ireland where I taught primary school kids. Before E. was born I had been teaching at language schools, at companies and privately at home. Now my greatest "teaching" project in on: raising my baby bilingual (Hungarian- English) in a purely Hungarian environment.